get widget guid on InitializeControls - Sitefinity - General Discussions

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Posted by Community Admin on 13-Sep-2011 00:00

I am loading 3 custom widgets, that we created on PageLoad.
Each of these widgets are separate instances of the same object - an "AnswerKey"
When these each load I want to get the guid for that instance of the AnswerKey.
In debug, I can see the unique values for each of the properties of that instance of an AnswerKey, such as, answers, title, course; but I can't find the guid.

How do I get the guid for a particular instance of a widget while in the InitializeControls method?

Posted by Community Admin on 15-Sep-2011 00:00

Hello Phil,

Do you mean InitializeControls method of your own widget? Then you first must get a reference to the Page where the widget is, for example:

var manager = PageManager.GetManager();

var page = manager.GetPageNodes().Where(p => p.Title == "Title").FirstOrDefault();

foreach (var control in page.Page.Controls)

var loaded = manager.LoadControl(control);

if (loaded is ContentBlock)

var guid = loaded.ID;

Here I check for ContentBlock, however in your case this will be different.

Kind regards,
Lubomir Velkov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 16-Sep-2011 00:00

Thanks. I'll be trying that this coming week.

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